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Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Die Träne

Price Realised USD 47,500
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USD 40,000 - USD 60,000
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Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Die Träne

Price Realised USD 47,500
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Price Realised USD 47,500
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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Die Träne
signed 'Klee' (upper right); dated, numbered and titled '1933 M 7 die Träne' (lower center)
brush and blue ink on paper
2412 x 1914 in. (62.2 x 48.8 cm.)
Painted in 1933
Provenance
Lily Klee, Bern (wife of the artist, 1940).
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above, 1946).
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (acquired from the above, 1948).
Main Street Gallery, Chicago.
Private collection, Chicago (circa 1950).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1954 (illustrated).
J.-E. Muller, Klee: Figures et masques, Paris, 1961 (illustrated).
M.L. Rosenthal, Paul Klee and the Arrow, Ph.D. Diss., The University of Iowa, 1979, p. 86 (illustrated, fig. 68).
I. Riedel, Engel der Wandlung: Paul Klees Engelbilder, Freiburg, 2000, p. 28.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, 1931-1933, Bonn, 2003, vol. 6, p. 319, no. 6092 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Fifty Drawings by Paul Klee, October-November 1948, no. 44.
Chicago, Main Street Gallery, Thirty Drawings by Paul Klee, October-November 1950, no. 28.
Stanford University, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, April 2000-May 2003 (on extended loan).
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